Yamaha's Global Motorsports Strategy and Team Line-ups for 2018
2018年2月15日 - 8:00PM
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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:7272) (ISIN:JP3942800008) is
actively engaged in racing efforts all over the world in order to
develop technologies and personnel under three main principles:
raising the value of the Yamaha brand, acquiring advanced
technologies and promoting the healthy spread of motorcycle
racing.
In MotoGP last season, Yamaha notched up its 500th Grand Prix
victory since it began racing in the World Championship in 1961. In
addition, the GMT94 Yamaha Official EWC Team lifted the Endurance
World Championship (EWC) title at the series’ Suzuka 8 Hours
finale, where the Yamaha Factory Racing Team also took victory for
the third year in a row.
Yamaha will be racing once again in 2018 aiming to surpass last
year’s achievements, fielding Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi
on the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team in MotoGP, teams in various
world championships like WorldSBK and MXGP, as well as entries in
regional and local championships. Through these efforts, Yamaha
will be endeavouring to improve the competitiveness of its
racebikes and acquire new and advanced technologies to implement in
its products.
Yamaha is continuing its efforts from the past few years to
create a tiered step-up structure for bringing young riders from
local races up to the MotoGP World Championship, including its
partnership programme with Valentino Rossi to discover and develop
young riders. This will continue this year on a global level and
Yamaha will lend its full support to young riders in various
countries. Please look forward to big things from Yamaha
motorsports in 2018.
Details on Yamaha’s main racing teams for 2018:
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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.Masayoshi Ono,
+81-538-37-4025Administration and Planning GroupMotor Sports
Strategy Divisiononom@yamaha-motor.co.jp